Mirror - Vol. 05, No. 11 - November 5, 1981

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Volume 5, No.11, November 5,1981 Fairfield University, Fairfield Connecticut 06430 Incorporated 1977
Hepatitus Cases
Strike Fairfield Students
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A capacity crowd swings to the "Cheaters" at Friday's successful Hallo-ween
fundraiser for the United Way. (Photo by Duane Bailey)
Dance Boosts Goal
by RoseAnne LaBarre
and Mary-Grace Quick
Proceeds from the Halloween
costume party held Friday in the
Oak Room brought the Fairfield
University Community approx-imately
$2200 closer to its United
Way Campaign goal, according to
FUSA president Mike Bentivegna.
The goal of the university is
$14,000 which must be collected
by Nov. 5, when the campaign
ends.
The dance was the major thrust
of the students' effort to reach
their goal of $2000. According to
dance coordinator Sherri Saba,
students deserve a lot of credit for
their participation and sell-out at-tendance
at the event. "If we
hadn't sold out, we would not have
hit our goal," she said.
Ms. Saba added that careful
management was also an impor-tant
factor in realizing the large
profit for United Way. "We cut
costs everywhere," she said,
"especially in contracting a low-budget
band." Other expenses in-cluded
refreshments, mainten-ance,
security, decorations and
tickets.
Additional student contribu-tions
will put the student sector
weH over its goal, and far above
last year's contribution of approx-imately
$1600. In addition to dorm
contributions, the fund was
boosted by a $100 donation from
the football club, which was
presented to FUSA by John Revay,
football club president.
According to campus coor-dinator
Stephen P. Jakab, other
sectors of the university had ob-tained
or surpassed their goals by
last week. He said that faculty, ad-ministration,
and maintenance
were all over their goals of $3,800,
$2,300, and $800 respectively. As
of last week, the sector including
office, clerical, switchboard,
security, and secretaries was
close to its goal of $1,200.
Rev. Aloysius Kelley, university
president and also in charge of the
Higher Education Sector of the
United Way Campaign, corn-by
Mike Cummings and
Lauren Pennisi
Type A Hepatitus has been con-firmed
among nine Fairfield beach
students.
According to Dean William
Schimpf, Vice President of Stu-dent
Services, some dorm resi-dents
show symptoms of the
disease, but it has not yet been
determined that they have con-tracted
hepatitus. As of last Tues-day,
160 students have been in-noculated.
Any student request-ing
an injection will not be refus-ed.
Dean Krell, Dean of Students,
stated that "the innoculation
won't prevent hepatitus, but will
lessen the severity."
The first case was reported Oc-tober
27th. The original four vic-tims
are members of the football
team as well as housemates. It is
believed that these four contract-ed
the infection at home. Current-ly
they are seeing their private
physicians.
'Hepatitus is characterized by a
sudden fever, nausea, and vomit-ing.
In adults there is a good
chance that jaundice will also oc-cur,
usually after several days of
the other symptoms. At this time
the other symptoms usually dimin-ish.
It is possible for hepatitus to
last from 8 to 12 weeks. Type A
Hepatitus is contracted orally, or
fecally. For example, in this case,
it is believed several people drank
from the same glass. Students are
warned to be especially careful at
this time.
As Dean Schimpf warned, hepa-titus
is "an extremely serious
disease." He urges any student
who believes himself to be af-fected
with hepatitus to contact
the infirmary immediately. The
football team was recently in-jected
as a precautionary measure
because of their contact with the
four victims.
Presently, the hepatitus matter
will be turned over to the state of
Connecticut for an investigation.
Under state law, the university had
to contact authorities when the
first case was diagnosed. The
local health department is in con-stant
contact with Student Ser-vices.
The Blood Mobile scheduled for
November 4th and 5th was can-celled
by the Red Cross on advice
from the Health Department.
Dean Schimpf commented that
classes will not be cancelled
because of the hepatitus problem.
Nursing Curriculum Re-evaluated
mented that economic problems
and declining college enrollment
have posed difficulties for this
year's campaign. Father Kelley
stressed the need for individual
participation to meet the agen-cies'
increased needs. He said,
"student contributions will now
take on more importance than
ever."
by Marguerite Downing
and Elizabeth Kline
Out of last year's senior nursing
students, approximately five
students in the Connecticut area
failed their Nursing Boards, which
would have given them a license
to practice.
Although the final percentage
of failures is not yet available,
Dean Porter feels that last year,
"We had more failures than we
usually do." She feels this was not
extremely significant because
"State boards are only one
measure of our graduates." Dean
Porter felt that last year was uni-que
because for the first time
students did not realize there was
a possibility of failing. She feels
this, and the bad timing of the ex-am
(July) were possible factors in
the. unusually high number of
failures.
Working towards a "sounder
base for subsequent nursing ex-perience,"
Dr. Phyllis E. Porter,
Dean of the School of Nursing,
and her colleagues have made
changes in the nursing cur-riculum.
The changes instituted affected
last year's entering class. As
freshman, the Class of 1984 was
given Physiology. In the past
Physiology was part of the
sophomore nursing student's
course load. Another change in
the succession of courses has
taken place in Psychological Nurs-ing.
This course is being given to
students in their junior year rather
than in their senior year. This will
allow visiting nurses in their
senior year to have knowledge of
psychological subject matter prior
to having to apply it practically.
Dean Porter, Barbara Sideleau, (a
faculty member), and Sheila Cox,
(a sophomore nursing major), all
agree that the changes are a more
logical progression of content and
sequence.
The School of Nursing is due for
accreditation from the National
League of Nursing in 1982. This
form of accreditation gives the
School a'quality rating. When ask-ed
whether this fact was a signifi-cant
factor in the School's deci-sion
to alter the curriculum se-quence,
Dean Porter replied that
the changes were simply a "nor-mal
keeping up to date with the
dynamic, always changing at-mosphere
of the nursing profes-sion."
Barbara Sideleau felt the
changes were the result of "slow
evolutions" which she recalls
began in 1978. According to
Sideleau, "We've been brainstorm-ing
for the best arrangement of
content and programming." Dean
Porter and Sideleau cite an "enor-mous
amount of student feed-back"
as part of what generated
changes.
Dean Porter stressed, "We're
proud of our students. We want to
help -them achieve in a difficult
field which entails preparing them
for a degree and a profession."
Deli Records Reveal $9,000 Debt
by Elizabeth Bartus
The Deli, which is incorporated
and unaffiliated with Fairfield
University administration, has in-curred
a debt of approximately
$9,000 due to their failure to pay
Connecticut state sales tax bet-ween
January of 1980 and May of
1981.
When the Deli, opened for
business in October 1979, FUSA
granted the operation $4,000 to
cover initial expenses. One month
later, the deli incorporated and
has not received further financial
assistance. President of FUSA,
Mike Bentivegna, will give no
money at this time to the deli. He
stated that "whatever problems
they have are their own."
Lauri Ann Kenney, Vice Presi-dent
of Finance, discovered their
debt to the state while doing
research for a paper she is prepar-ing
for her accounting internship.
She and current deli President,
Jerry Coiley, with the assistance
of accounting professor T.J. Fitz-patrick,
are now reviewing past
financial records. They have con-tacted
the state in an attempt to
clear the problem. To date, the deli
officers are waiting to find out if
they are tax exempt.
Should they be responsible for
the debt, they plan to pay it in in-stallments.
Since their treasury
will not cover such a large sum of
money, the Board of Directors
plans to establish campaigns to
boost sales. "We mainly need to
increase our lunch sales," stated
Coiley.
Last Monday an advertising
committee was established which
will devise efficient promotion
campaigns. The deli cannot afford
costly advertising. Next semester
a marketing major will be on an in-ternship
program to help with pro-motion
and sales.
Barbara Buttling, Vice President
of Store Operations, emphasized
that efforts are being made to
maintain current food prices in the
deli. If sales do not increase, then
prices will have to be raised to
avoid liquidation. The Board of
Directors will discuss the possible
need for liquidation. To avoid
dissolving, Kenney states, "We
need the support of the students."
In an attempt to cut costs, some
shifts are operating with fewer
employees. However, the twenty-four
deli workers do not face
unemployment.
Due to $9,000 debt, the Deli looks to increase business through advertising and expanded inventory.
(Photo by Duane Bailey)